Hampton University Bans Dreadlocks, Cornrows

Over a decade later, policy still enforced

Hampton University's business school dean is standing by an 11-year old ban on dreadlocks and cornrows. Male students enrolled in the school's 5-year MBA program cannot wear the hairstyles to class. Dean Sid Credle believes the ban has helped students land jobs, saying, "We've been very successful. We've placed more than 99 percent of the students who have graduated from this school, this program." The program aims to model the students after top black businessmen. "What we do is pay tribute to that image and say those are your role models. This is a way you will look when you become president. If you're going to play baseball, you wear baseball uniforms. If you're going to play tennis, your wear tennis uniform. Well, you're playing that business." So which role models should the students be looking to for inspiration? "I mean Charles Drew didn't wear it, Muhammad Ali didn't wear it, Martin Luther King didn't wear it," said Credle. (WVEC)

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